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Terrible look for the Green Party here.

Green council leader flew from Gatwick to Glasgow to protest against climate change at Cop26

Councillor Phelim Mac Cafferty, leader of Brighton and Hove City Council's (BHCC) Green group, took the 80-minute flight from Gatwick on the same day he criticised the Government for a lack of action over climate change.

After completing the 460-mile journey, Cllr Mac Cafferty made a speech on cutting carbon emissions and appeared at a protest march, led by Greta Thunberg, calling for world leaders to stop temperatures rising.

The leader of the Green Party which controls the Sussex council, who co-chairs BHCC carbon neutral working group, has now unreservedly apologised, saying he had been worried his train might be cancelled.

He told The Argus: "In the Friday evening just gone, I took a flight from London to Glasgow to attend COP26 where I had been invited to represent the city at a presentation of the Glasgow Declaration on Saturday morning.

"This decision to fly was a major failure of my judgement which goes against my political group's pledges and principles and I unreservedly apologise."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=entnewsntp